All the fun of the fair

Charles Dickens was an avid admirer of Greenwich Fair in London, and wote a
famously atmospheric account of its rich texture of sounds – "the
screams of women, the shouts of boys, the clanging of gongs, the firing of
pistols..." Particularly popular was the fair tradition of "tumbling":
dragging young women down the hill from the Observatory.

The festival was considered so debauched that it was shut down in 1857. Last
year, it was resurrected as part of the Greenwich and Docklands
International Festival.